IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

FIRST APPEAL (ST) NO. 1840 OF 2021

WITH

INTERIM APPLICATION NO. 953 OF 2021

WITH

INTERIM APPLICATION NO. 954 OF 2021

IN

FIRST APPEAL (ST) NO. 1840 OF 2021

The State of Maharashtra & anr. ..Appellants/

Applicants

Versus

Shri Harishchandra Bhiva Patil & ors. ..Respondents

Mr. A. R. Patil, Addl. GP, for the State

None for the Respondents

CORAM : RAJESH S. PATIL, J.

DATE : 10.12.2025

P. C.

INTERIM APPLICATION NO. 953 OF 2021

1. This Interim Application has been filed for condonation of delay

in filing the First Appeal.

2. Office remarks show that the Respondents have been duly served. None appears on behalf of the Respondents when the matter is

called out.

3. I have heard Mr. Patil, learned Addl. GP and gone through the contents of the Interim Application. According to me, a case is made

out to allow the present Interim Application.

4. Supreme Court in the judgment of Collector, Land Acquisition,

Anantnag and another Vs. Mst. Katji and Others reported in 1987 SC

1353, has held that:

“Every day’s delay must be explained” does not mean that a pedantic approach should be made. Why not every house’s delay. Every second’s delay ? The doctrine must